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Record Number: 12276


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Almanzor is as fresh in my memory, as if I had visitted his Tombe but Yesterday, though it bee at least seven yeare agon since. . . . I made his Story such a one to mee, as I cryed an hower together for him, and was so angry with Alcidiana that for my life I could never love her after it.'

Century:

1600-1699

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1640 and 31 Dec 1647

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

county: Bedfordshire
specific address: Chicksands Priory

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Dorothy Osborne

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1627

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

Anglican

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Robert Ashley

Title:

Almansor the Learned and Victorious King that Conquered Spaine, His Life and Death

Genre:

Fiction, Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1627; translation of a Spanish romance by a fictional Arabian author, Ali Abencufian.

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

12276

Source:

Print

Author:

Dorothy Osborne

Editor:

Kenneth Parker

Title:

Letters to Sir William Temple

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1987

Vol:

n/a

Page:

62

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Dorothy Osborne, Kenneth Parker (ed.), Letters to Sir William Temple (London, 1987), p. 62, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=12276, accessed: 02 May 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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